Los Angeles-based AHBE Landscape Architects have created an innovative new environment for Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre to promote healing, health and well-being in the heart of the city. Continue reading →

As a proud garden-variety (but trained!) horticulturist, who has tended gardens on Sydney’s leafy North Shore for almost thirty years, I have learnt a few things about my craft. Some of it has come to me by application on site, other gems have come from friends (often fellow horticulturists), and some were either learnt while I studied horticulture in the early 1990s or ongoing inservice, or have been gleaned from Google; or the many fine garden books I still possess. Continue reading →

The Blue Mountains Botanic Garden in New South Wales will celebrate its 30th birthday with a brilliant display of more than 20,000 bulbs. Daffodils will burst into flower in August, with a huge array to follow. Continue reading →

China’s burgeoning economic and political might in this century are quite a turn-around (one might say a return to form) from its cowed condition under the ‘Opium Wars’ (and Taiping Revolution – civil war) of the mid-late 19th century. Gun-ship ‘diplomacy’ was used to force foreign trade access to this vast country’s ports, to export the west’s craze product: fine tea. Continue reading →

University of Texas, Austin, launches new exhibition photographing and distributing stunning macro images of insects up close and personal as they’re seldom seen, which are copyright free. Continue reading →

Self-watering pots have been saving gardeners time and effort for decades already, but a new product from a Netherlands outfit takes the guesswork out of refilling self-watering pots. Continue reading →

I recently had the immense delight to be present at the launch of ‘A Delicious Bunch’. Held at a tiny but wonderful culinary-themed bookshop (A Scrumptious Read), the event was anything but lacking in colour and joy! Much like the book itself really, not to mention the author! Continue reading →

One of America’s oldest rose gardens in Portland, Oregon, is turning 100, with festivities planned to celebrate the milestone as well as say goodbye to the garden’s longterm curator, whose hanging up his secateurs after 30 years at the helm. Continue reading →